Firehouse Zen

Archive for November2014

The useful part of a wheel is not the wheel or the spokes, but the hole where all the spokes meet. We have to look past the obvious and turn to the esoteric; despite what we see,Â it’s deeper than that.Â Logical solutions exist to every problem, but the emotional mind fights those solutions because they arenâ€™t, […]

You simply can’t plan for everything. Â We do try to make our scenes safer, but conditions change, or situations are presented where we can’t even imagine how they came to be. Â How many people considered that individuals would try to bring down the World Trade Center, not once, but twice, succeeding in the end and […]

I got back from some opportunities I had taken andÂ began to reflect on what I had learned. Â Over a beer or two, I happened to have a conversation with a fire service leader about my blog and we were talking about different approaches and the like. Â One of the things he said to me was […]

Recently I have undergone Lasik surgery to “enhance” my vision. Â I’m very happy with the result, although there were some adjustments that had to be made. Â Sight has always been an important sense to me. Â As someone who trained as an graphic artist and photographer,Â as a writer, and in the things I enjoy doing, my […]

Simon JavizianThe Roto-Ray: Beauty or Beast?I just found you!!! The rotating lights are an indelible part of my memory. I was born in Detroit in the '30s and our Detroit Fire Dept had the rotating lights above the front bumper, or high up, on the end of a vertical staff. YOU COULD SEE THEM COMING BLOCKS AWAY!! What memories. I…
2017-05-22 23:54:18

Carol Mayers WingeierEnding or Beginning?Beautifully said. I know how hard it is to move on to another stage in your life but there is always something new out there, something more to learn, something more to teach another. All those skills you've learned and taught have a purpose and you never know when one of them will come in…
2017-05-06 17:30:16

BostonfireFirefighting Today HangoutWhy is it that when members of the public want to initiate a great lifesaving program, Fire Chiefs ignore them and will only work with FF's? I know a former Air Force medic who is really trying her best to initiate a Pulse Point AED program in New England, but none of the Chiefs will…
2017-01-07 00:04:19

oldnukeThirty-Five“What the **** are you thinking?” Man, you sound like my first Chief (in a good way). He never raised his voice to me or threatened me, but he got my attention (in a good way) every time. It has been forty years and I still think about him, even though I've left the (volunteer)…
2017-01-03 01:43:39

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